A Surprise Visitor

[drplokta]

Things you don't see every day on a seventh floor windowsill in Croydon



Does anyone have any idea what it is?

Comments

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Some sort of cockatiel. I'm guessing an escapee, as I don't see it on this list: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf0977/species.html

[animoose.livejournal.com]

A bird.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Looks like a garden, a fence, and then a parking lot.

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[drplokta]

Actually not. The green bit is a railway cutting, not a garden.

[numbat.livejournal.com]

Definitely your standard cockatiel. There is only one type of cockatiel though birds in captivity have been bred for other colours. Since this is the most popular of pet parrots it's the most likely to turn up on your windowsill.

[oulangi.livejournal.com]

A Ruskie er Iraqi er no an Al qaida no wait a North Korean umm no, it's clearly a miniature Chinese remote spy bird. Kill it!

[drplokta]

It must have known you were going to say that, because it buggered off while I was lining up a second photo.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Crikey! It blows our pigeons (nesting in a bush right up against the hall window - stare at us beadily while we're on the phone) into a cocked hat!

[lproven.livejournal.com]

Doomed, that's what it is...

It's a cockatiel and though there are feral parakeets living in the South East, there are no cockatiels AFAIK. It's dead come winter in the unlikely even it makes it that far. Poor little bugger. Still, I hope it enjoys its brief burst of freedom - it's escaped from a pet shop or home somewhere...

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

"Feral parakeets" -- little gangs roving the parks -- love that image (and news item a la Monty Python?).

I know someone whose parakeet escaped, and for a couple of years afterward was seen flying around the neighborhood, mostly with sparrows.

[headgardener.livejournal.com]

Yes, its a cockatiel, presumably broken out of someone's aviary. Maybe its owner lived in a tower block and its trying to find its way back to regular meals and relaible water dish?